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<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FFA3FFA3FF1211D9C6774FCB" ID-CoL="3ZLFS" authority="Levey, 2012" authorityName="Levey" authorityYear="2012" box="[151,280,645,671]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="33" pageNumber="34" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dividua" status="sp. nov.">
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA3FFA3FF1211D9C6774FCB" bold="true" box="[151,280,645,671]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="34">M. dividua</emphasis>
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(
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, 104, 105, 167)
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA3FFA3FF1211ACC3764E53" blockId="33.[151,1437,751,2036]" box="[151,1049,751,776]" pageId="33" pageNumber="34">
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA3FFA3FF1211ACC6564E5C" bold="true" box="[151,313,751,776]" pageId="33" pageNumber="34">
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locality:
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W.
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,
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,
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sheep station (
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)
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.
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA3FFA3FF421048C5604E78" bold="true" box="[199,527,787,812]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="34" reason="1">Type specimens examined.</emphasis>
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(
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),
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<collectorName id="26B85350FFA3FFA3FCAF1048C31E4E78" box="[810,1137,788,812]" pageId="33" pageNumber="34">Marloo Stn. Wurarga, W.A.</collectorName>
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1931–1941
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<collectorName id="26B85350FFA3FFA3FA8D1048C2FB4E78" box="[1288,1428,788,812]" pageId="33" pageNumber="34">A. Goerling</collectorName>
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/
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<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FFA3FFA3FEB31064C5664E04" authority="Levey, 2012" authorityName="Levey" authorityYear="2012" box="[310,521,824,848]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="33" pageNumber="34" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dividua" status="sp. nov.">
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA3FFA3FEB31064C5664E04" box="[310,521,824,848]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="34">Melobasis dividua</emphasis>
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<determinerName id="7E2EDA42FFA3FFA3FDE71064C5A24E04" box="[610,717,824,848]" pageId="33" pageNumber="34">B. Levey</determinerName>
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det.;
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as follows.
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<collectingRegion id="4989F864FFA3FFA3FBC51064C24B4E04" box="[1088,1316,823,848]" country="Australia" name="Western Australia" pageId="33" pageNumber="34">Western Australia</collectingRegion>
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:
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</emphasis>
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,
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(
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<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FFA3FFA3FF1A1000C7874E20" box="[159,232,860,884]" country="Australia" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:32981" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:32981" name="Australian National Insect Collection" pageId="33" pageNumber="34">ANIC</collectionCode>
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,
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<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FFA3FFA3FF761000C6254E27" box="[243,330,860,883]" pageId="33" pageNumber="34">BMNH</collectionCode>
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,
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<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FFA3FFA3FED01000C6DF4E20" box="[341,432,860,884]" pageId="33" pageNumber="34">WAMA</collectionCode>
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) same data as Holotype;
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(
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<collectionCode id="ED5CAE43FFA3FFA3FD791000C43D4E20" box="[764,850,860,884]" country="Belgium" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/c7r2-61q8" name="Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique" pageId="33" pageNumber="34">IRSNB</collectionCode>
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)
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<location id="8E92605DFFA3FFA3FCE41000C4AB4E20" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03E48790FFA3FFA0FF1211D9C4E04EB8:8E92605DFFA3FFA3FCE41000C4AB4E20" box="[865,964,860,884]" name="Wurarga" pageId="33" pageNumber="34" stateProvince="Western Australia">Wurarga</location>
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,
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<collectingDate id="EFB7E9AEFFA3FFA3FC4A1000C32D4E20" box="[975,1090,860,884]" pageId="33" pageNumber="34" value="1938-01-27">27.1.1938</collectingDate>
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,
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<collectorName id="26B85350FFA3FFA3FBC81000C3BF4E27" box="[1101,1232,860,884]" pageId="33" pageNumber="34">C. Deuquet</collectorName>
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;
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<collectingRegion id="4989F864FFA3FFA3FB591007C2054E20" box="[1244,1386,859,884]" country="Australia" name="Queensland" pageId="33" pageNumber="34">Queensland</collectingRegion>
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</emphasis>
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:
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(
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)
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coll.
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(undoubtedly wrongly labelled)
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.
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA3FFA3FF4210FFC62E4EE8" bold="true" box="[199,321,931,956]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="34" reason="1">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
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General diagnosis: length
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.; head and pronotum dark greenish-bronze with reddishpurple or violet reflections; elytra brownish-copper with the following blue or violet markings: a sutural vitta in the basal quarter; a humeral vitta of about the same length, which extends narrowly along the basal margin to the epipleura which is similarly coloured for its basal quarter; rarely the humeral vitta is joined to the sutural vitta along the basal margin; a pair of median maculae which are sometimes narrowly joined to form a sinuate transverse fascia; an elongate roughly obovate pre-apical macula; underside brownish-bronze sometimes with reddish-purple reflections; lateral parts of underside moderately densely clothed with fairly long silvery pubescence.
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</paragraph>
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Head: upper third of vertex moderately densely punctured with small ovate punctures; remainder of head very densely punctured with ovate punctures which largely coalesce to
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linear series orientated dorsoventrally on the lower half of the vertex and the frontoclypeus; moderately densely clothed with moderately long silvery pubescence; unpunctured areas weakly to moderately strongly microreticulate; clypeal excision fairly deep, U-shaped, with an unpunctured weakly to strongly microreticulate border; clypeal peaks slightly obtusely angled; vertex flat, about two-thirds width of head across eyes when viewed from above; eyes weakly convex.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA3FFA3FF42162BC5F44883" blockId="33.[151,1437,751,2036]" pageId="33" pageNumber="34">
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Antenna: serrate from segment 4–10, the segments becoming progressively smaller and slightly less elongate, the expanded part of each segment more or less quadrate in
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, that of segment 4 and sometimes 5 more or less triangular in
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<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFFA3FFA3FEA2169CC6534883" box="[295,316,1472,1495]" pageId="33" pageNumber="34" type="female">♀</specimenCount>
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, the rest more or less quadrate.
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA3FFA3FF4216B8C7A54A48" blockId="33.[151,1437,751,2036]" pageId="33" pageNumber="34">Pronotum: 1.52–1.73 times as wide at base as long in midline; anterior margin weakly bisinuate, with a broad often strongly truncated median lobe; posterior margin bisinuate; widest behind, at or in front of mid-length; lateral margins weakly rectilinearly diverging from the posterior angles to widest point, sometimes slightly sinuate near posterior angles, thence weakly to moderately strongly curvilinearly converging to the anterior angles; as wide as or notably narrower at base than elytra at base; lateral carina almost straight or slightly sinuate, about half to twothirds complete; punctation moderately dense in central fifth, consisting of small round punctures, which become progressively larger and denser towards the lateral margin; without or with a narrow almost complete unpunctured midline; shiny to weakly microreticulate; moderately densely clothed with fairly long silvery pubescence in lateral half.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA3FFA3FF42147BC65D4A30" blockId="33.[151,1437,751,2036]" pageId="33" pageNumber="34">Scutellum: variable in shape, almost round, ovate to quadrate, about one-eleventh to one-twelfth width of elytra at base.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA3FFA0FF421433C3A84C48" blockId="33.[151,1437,751,2036]" lastBlockId="34.[151,1436,151,1004]" lastPageId="34" lastPageNumber="35" pageId="33" pageNumber="34">
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Elytra: 2.25–2.39 times as long as wide at base; basal margin moderately strongly bisinuate to biarcuate; parallel sided or very slightly widening from base over the humeral callosities, thence almost parallel sided to the mid-length, before narrowing to the narrow or broadly rounded apices; lateral margins from just beyond mid-length and apices with fairly coarse acute serrations, those at the apices being slightly smaller; sutural margin slightly raised in apical half; rather uniformly punctured, but with traces of one two costate intervals in the inner half; internal of the first costate interval, sparsely to moderately densely punctured with very small round punctures; external to the first costate interval the punctures become larger and dense, to very dense near the lateral margin, where they become ovate and
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transverse series; moderately strongly microreticulate.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA0FFA0FF42127BC69D4C30" blockId="34.[151,1436,151,1004]" pageId="34" pageNumber="35">Proepisternum: very densely punctured with moderately large, shallow, lunate punctures, partly obscured by dense long silvery pubescence.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA0FFA0FF42122CC2174C9B" blockId="34.[151,1436,151,1004]" pageId="34" pageNumber="35">Prosternum: with a narrow bead at the anterior margin, the anterior margin at almost the same level as the area behind; prosternal process strongly widening distally, sparsely punctured with small punctures, with a line of slightly larger punctures near the lateral margin, which are sometimes partly coalescent near the base; glabrous.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA0FFA0FF421280C5904F43" blockId="34.[151,1436,151,1004]" pageId="34" pageNumber="35">Mesoepisternum: densely to very densely punctured, with moderately large, shallow, mostly semi lunate punctures; partly obscured by long silvery pubescence.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA0FFA0FF421178C4174FF3" blockId="34.[151,1436,151,1004]" pageId="34" pageNumber="35">
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Apical sternite: with the lunate punctures coalescent, their rims forming ridges more or less parallel to the lateral margin over most of the surface, but turned in towards the midline distally; excision fairly deep, much wider than deep in
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<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFFA0FFA0FEA31130C6544FD7" box="[294,315,620,643]" pageId="34" pageNumber="35" type="male">♂</specimenCount>
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(
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<figureCitation id="13762A03FFA0FFA0FECE1130C6F14FD0" box="[331,414,620,644]" captionStart="FIGURES 17–30" captionStartId="82.[151,257,1887,1908]" captionTargetBox="[194,1379,238,1835]" captionTargetId="figure-131@82.[179,1406,191,1877]" captionTargetPageId="82" captionText="FIGURES 17–30. 17. dorsal habitus of M. abnormis Carter (no locailty); 18. dorsal habitus of M. browni Carter (Burracoppin, W.A.); 19. clypeus of M. browni; 20 appendiculate tarsal claw of pusilla species group; 21 simple tarsal claw; 22–25 apical sternite: 22. M. dives Carter (♀ holotype); 23–24 M. dividua sp. n.: 23 ♂; 24. ♀; 25. M. thoracica Blackburn ♂; 26–27. prosternal process with line of coalescent punctures: 26. M. flexa sp. n.; 27. M. septemplagiata Carter; 28. pronotum and scutellum of diceropygus species group; 29–30 pronotum and base of elytra: 29. M. thoracica; 30. M. g. gloriosa (Laporte & Gory)." pageId="34" pageNumber="35">Fig. 23</figureCitation>
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), as wide or slightly wider than deep in the
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<specimenCount id="9D4BFD0FFFA0FFA0FC021130C4F34FD7" box="[903,924,620,643]" pageId="34" pageNumber="35" type="female">♀</specimenCount>
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(
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<figureCitation id="13762A03FFA0FFA0FC2E1130C4904FD0" box="[939,1023,620,644]" captionStart="FIGURES 17–30" captionStartId="82.[151,257,1887,1908]" captionTargetBox="[194,1379,238,1835]" captionTargetId="figure-131@82.[179,1406,191,1877]" captionTargetPageId="82" captionText="FIGURES 17–30. 17. dorsal habitus of M. abnormis Carter (no locailty); 18. dorsal habitus of M. browni Carter (Burracoppin, W.A.); 19. clypeus of M. browni; 20 appendiculate tarsal claw of pusilla species group; 21 simple tarsal claw; 22–25 apical sternite: 22. M. dives Carter (♀ holotype); 23–24 M. dividua sp. n.: 23 ♂; 24. ♀; 25. M. thoracica Blackburn ♂; 26–27. prosternal process with line of coalescent punctures: 26. M. flexa sp. n.; 27. M. septemplagiata Carter; 28. pronotum and scutellum of diceropygus species group; 29–30 pronotum and base of elytra: 29. M. thoracica; 30. M. g. gloriosa (Laporte & Gory)." pageId="34" pageNumber="35">Fig. 24</figureCitation>
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); distal margin of the flange straight, the spines slightly developed, shorter than the depth of the flange.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA0FFA0FF4211E8C4F74F98" blockId="34.[151,1436,151,1004]" box="[199,920,692,716]" pageId="34" pageNumber="35">Tarsal claws: slightly widened at base, but without a basal tooth.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA0FFA0FF42118BC6DC4FBB" blockId="34.[151,1436,151,1004]" box="[199,435,727,751]" pageId="34" pageNumber="35">
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Aedeagus (
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<figureCitation id="13762A03FFA0FFA0FEC0118BC6C84FBB" box="[325,423,727,751]" captionStart="FIGURES 164–170" captionStartId="99.[151,257,1918,1939]" captionTargetBox="[217,1379,205,1871]" captionTargetId="figure-81@99.[198,1394,191,1899]" captionTargetPageId="99" captionText="FIGURES 164–170. Melobasis spp. formosa species group aedeagi: 164. M. burnsi sp. n. (paratype, 26 km S. of Menzies); 165. M. formosa Carter (Cue, W.A.); 166. M. brevis sp. n. (holotype, Wurarga, W.A.); 167. M. dividua sp. n. (holotype, Wurarga, W.A.); 168. M. marlooensis Carter (Wurarga, W.A.); 169. M. brittoni sp. n. (paratype, Ankertell, W.A.); 170. M. flexa sp. n. (Bencubbin, W.A.). Scale bars = 1.0 mm." pageId="34" pageNumber="35">Fig. 167</figureCitation>
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).
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA0FFA0FF4211A0C5DD4E40" blockId="34.[151,1436,151,1004]" box="[199,690,764,788]" pageId="34" pageNumber="35">Ovipositor: short, slightly longer than wide.</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="C357650DFFA0FFA0FF421043C36B4E2B" pageId="34" pageNumber="35" type="discussion">
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA0FFA0FF421043C36B4E2B" blockId="34.[151,1436,151,1004]" pageId="34" pageNumber="35">
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA0FFA0FF421043C6204E6C" bold="true" box="[199,335,799,824]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="35" reason="1">Comments.</emphasis>
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This species is unlikely to be confused with any other. The overall shape and elytral markings are most similar to
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<taxonomicName id="4C4D4D05FFA0FFA0FEC11019C6D34E08" authority="Levey, 2012" authorityName="Levey" authorityYear="2012" box="[324,444,836,860]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Melobasis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="34" pageNumber="35" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="brittoni" status="sp. nov.">
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA0FFA0FEC11019C6D34E08" box="[324,444,836,860]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="35">M. brittoni</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA0FFA0FE461018C5674E08" bold="true" box="[451,520,836,860]" pageId="34" pageNumber="35">
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A20A57EFFFA0FFA0FE461018C56C4E08" box="[451,515,836,860]" pageId="34" pageNumber="35" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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,
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</emphasis>
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however in that species the apical sternite does not have lunate punctures forming grooves that turn in towards the midline distally, and the aedeagus is different.
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||
</paragraph>
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||
</subSubSection>
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||
<subSubSection id="C357650DFFA0FFA0FF4210D0C4E04EB8" pageId="34" pageNumber="35" type="etymology">
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<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA0FFA0FF4210D0C67C4E93" blockId="34.[151,1436,151,1004]" pageId="34" pageNumber="35">
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA0FFA0FF4210D0C6214EF0" bold="true" box="[199,334,908,932]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="35" reason="1">Etymology.</emphasis>
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The name comes from the division of the median fascia of the elytra into two maculae in many specimens.
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</paragraph>
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||
<paragraph id="8BF23686FFA0FFA0FF42108FC4E04EB8" blockId="34.[151,1436,151,1004]" box="[199,911,979,1004]" pageId="34" pageNumber="35">
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<emphasis id="B939EA94FFA0FFA0FF42108FC6254EB8" bold="true" box="[199,330,979,1004]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="35" reason="1">Bionomics.</emphasis>
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Adults collected in January. Larval hosts unknown.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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</treatment>
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